Over the past decade, EU and national policy-makers alike have paid more attention to childhood poverty and children’s rights. Whether this has led to better policies, and whether these policies have in turn resulted in less childhood poverty and more human dignity, remains debatable. A better understanding of both child poverty and children’s rights could help. This book introduces several approaches in the field of child poverty and children...

The European Court of Human Rights received tens of thousands of applications per year. The answer by the Member States of the Council of Europe to this dramatic development is Protocol No. 14 to the European Convention on Human Rights, signed on 13 May 2004.

The seven core UN human rights treaties are each supervised by an expert committee. This book is the first to explore whether and to what extent the Committees’ supervisory procedures display similarities and tend to converge.